Truck-frame for railway-cars



-. H. A. BENEDICT AND E. M. MOLLER.

, TRUCK FRAME FOR RAILWAY CARS.

I APPLICATION FILED APR. 9, 1921. 1,389,616.

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TRUCK FRAME FOR RAILWAY CARS.

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PatentedSept. 6, 1921.

H. A. BENEDICT AND E. M. MOLLER.

TRUCK FRAME FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.9, 1921. 1,389,616. Patentedsept. 6,1921.

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HERSGHEL A. BENEDICT, or EAST ORANGE, Ann EnvAnn ivr. MOLLER, or ERsEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

TRUCK-FRAME FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

Original application filed February 7, 1920, Serial No. 356,888. Divided and this application filed April Serial No. 460,140.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERSOHEL A. BENE- D101 and EnvARD M. MoLLnn, citizens of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and at Jersey City, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Truck- Frames for Railway-Cars; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form'a part of this specification.

The present invention which is in the nature of a division of our former application for Letters-Patent, filed February 7, 1920, Serial Number 356,888, relates, generally, to improvements in truck-frames for railway cars, and the like; and this invention has reference, more particularly, to a' novel truck-frame for cars comprising in a gen eral manner, a pair of longitudinally extending side-members, cross-bars between said side-members and secured at their endportions to the respective side-members, carrier-elements connected with said side-members, said carrier-elements being provided with receiving sockets, laterally extending end-rods having their respective end-portions disposed in the receiving sockets of the oppositely located carrier-elements, links extending from said carrier-elements, and a nected with each pair of oppositely located links 1 The present invention, therefore, has for its principal object to provide a novel and simply constructed truck-frame for railway cars, and more particularly for electric street-railway cars or electric busses, combining therein the various elements hereinabove stated, and more particularly described in the following specification.

With the objects of thepresent invention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel truck and brake-bar mechanism therefor, for railway cars, and the said invention consists, furthermore, in the general arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, as well as in the Specification of letters Patent.

Patented sept. 6, 1921.

details of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of atruck-frame and its parts, said view showing one embodiment of the principles of the present invention; and Fig. 2 is a part elevation-and part longitudinal vertical sectional representation of said truck-frame, showing in connection therewith, and also in longitudinal vertical section, the main central portions of the underhang frame with which the truck-frame is used.

Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the left-hand portion of the parts represented in said Fig. 2; and Fig. 4- is a longitudinal vertical sectional representation of the righthand portion of the parts represented in said Fig. 2, both'o f said views being made on an enlarged scale. a e

Similar characters of reference are em- 'ployed in all of the said above described The truck-frame proper, as will be seen more particularly from an inspection of Fig. 1 of the drawings, comprises a pair of longitudinally extending side-members 3 and 4, which are also usually made in the form of channel-irons, and are suitably tied, in any desired manner, by an arrangement of cross-bars5 and. 6. At the respective endportions, the said side-members or bars 3 and 4 have secured thereto by means of bolts 7, or other suitable fastening means, carrierelements or members, as 8, formed with the socketed portions 9 for the reception of the end-portions of laterally extending endrods, as 10.

Each carrier-element or member 8 is further provided with a perforated portion 11,'and pivotally connected with each portion 11, by means of a pin 12, is an oscillating link 13, each pair of said links carrying upon their lower ends suitably formed extensions, as 14, upon which are secured by means of bolts 15, or other suitable fastening means, the respective end-portions of brake-beams 16 which carry the brakeshoes 17.

As shown more particularly inv Fig. 1 of the drawings, each brake-beam 16 comprises the divided parts or members 18 and 19, and extending across the open central portion of said parts or members 18 and 19, by being secured to the member 19 by means of bolts 20 and to the part 18 by means of an embracing end-portion, as 21, are flanged bearing-plates 22 carrying suitably disposed pivot-pins 23 upon which the brake-shoe actuating members 2 1 and 25 are oscillatorily mounted. The lower end-portions of the said members at and 25 have connected therewith in any usual manner, by means of bolts or pins 26, the perforated end-portions of a pair of adjusting rods 27, which are adjustably connected by means of a turnbuckle 28 or other suitably constructed adjusting means, as will be clearly evident.

As shown in said Figs. 2, 3 and 1 of the drawings, the said side-members 3 and a have suitably secured thereto, in the manner of our p-revious application for Letters- Patent, Serial Number 356,888, the journalboxes 29 in which are rotatably mounted the car-wheel axles 30, provided with the carwheels 31, against the peripheral surfaces of which the brake-shoes 17 are adapted to be brought into braking relation, when actuated by the previously-mentioned brakeshoe actuating members 24; and 25, from the usual actuating rods 42 and 13.

The said side-members 3 and 4: have also suitably mounted thereon, by means of an arrangement of spring-embracing shackles, as 32, an arrangement of leaf-springs 33, said springs being longitudinally disposed directly above the said side-members 3 and a. The said springs are provided with looped end-portions or eyes, as 3 1, and 35, for pivotally'connecting the ends of said springs with suitably constructed attaching means, such as is shown more particularly in said Fi 's. 2, 3 and t of the drawings, the eyes 34 ot said'springs being'mounted upon pins or bolts 36 connected with brackets 37 suitably secured to one set of cross-bars or members 2, and the looped end-portions or eyes 35 Off the springs being operatively connected with bolts or pins 38 carried by suitable shackle-members 39 which are oscillatorily connected by means of pins or bolts 40 with brackets 41, suitably secured to another set of said cross-bars or members 2.

From the foregoing description of the present invention, it' will be noted, that we have produced a novel and simply conbut which may be put to other uses, as in the construction of electric busses, and similar vehicles.

e are, further, fully aware that changes maybe made in the general arrangements and combinations of theavarious devicesand parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the said parts, without departing from the scope of the present inventlon as set forth in the foregoing specification, and asdefined in the clauses of the claim which are appended to the said specification. Fence, we do not limit our present invention to the exact arrangement and combination of the devices and'parts as described in the said specificatiomnor do we confine ourselves to the exact details of the construction of the said parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. lVe claim I a V 1. A truck-frame for railway cars, and the like, consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending side-members, carrier-elements connected with the respective end-portions of said side-members, links extending from said carrier-elements, a brake-beam provided with brake-shoes connectedwith each pair of oppositely located links, a bearingplate carried by said brake-beam, an actuating member pivotally connected with said bearing-plate, and means connected with said actuating member for actuating the same.

2. A truck-frame for railway-cars, and the like, consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending sidemembers, carrier-elements connected with the respective end-portions of said side-members, links extending from said carrier-elements, a brake-beam provided with brake-shoes connected with each pair of oppositely located links, a bearing-plate carried by each brake-beam, an actuating means pivotally connected with each bearing-plate, actuating rods pivotally connected with the upper end-portions of said actuating members for actuating the same, and a means of adjustment be tween the lower end-portions of said actuating members and pivotally connected with said actuating members. a I I 3. A truck-frame for railway cars, and the like, consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending side-members, carrier-elements connected with the respective vendportions of said side-members, links "extending from said carrier-elements, a brake-beam provided with brake-shoes connected with each pair of oppositely located links, abearsame, and a means of adjustment between the lower end-portions of said actuating members and pivotally connected with said actuating members, consisting of a pair of adjusting rods, said rods having screwthreaded end-portions, and a turnbuckle connected with the screw-threaded end-portions of said last-mentioned rods.

4:. A truck-frame for railway cars, and the like, consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending side-members, cross-bars between said side-members and secured at their end portions to the respective sidemembers, carrier-elements connected with the respective end-portions of said sidemembers, said carrier-elements being provided with receiving sockets, laterally extending end-rods having their respective end portions disposed in the receiving sockets of theoppositely located carrier-elements, links extending from said carrier-elements, and a brake-beam provided with brake-shoes connected with each pair of oppositely located links.

5. A truck-frame for railway cars, and the like, consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending side-members, cross-bars between said side-members and secured at their end-portions to the respective sidemembers, carriereelements connected with the respective end-portions of said sidemembers, said carrier-elements being provided with receiving sockets, laterally extending end-rods having their respective end-portions disposed in the receiving sockets of the oppositely located carrier-elements, links extending from said carrierelements, and a brake-beam provided with brake-shoes connected with each pair of oppositely located links, each brake-beam comprising a pair of dividing members, bracketplates connected with the dividing members of each brake-beam, pivot-pins connected with said bracket-plates, a brake-shoe actuating member oscillatorily mounted upon each pivot-pin, and means connected with said actuating members for actuating the same. 7

In testimony, that we claim the invention set forth above we have hereunto set our hands this 7th da of April, 1921.

HERS HEL A. BENEDICT. EDVARD M. MOLLER. Witnesses:

FREDK C. FRAENTZEL, EVA E. DESOH. 

